Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max Update 2
Sizeable update to the production renderer adds MaterialX support, new Enscape bridge, and updates to V-Ray GPU and Chaos Scatter.
Thursday, November 30th, 2023
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Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.18
Sizeable update to the game engine extends support for PhysX, and adds new animation and texture-processing functionality.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 1
3ds Max production renderer adds support for Nvidia's AI-based OptiX denoising system, hybrid CPU/GPU texture baking, adaptive sampling.
Friday, March 30th, 2018
Amplify Creations releases Multi-Tile UV Bake Tool
Inexpensive 3ds Max plugin speeds up the process of baking multi-tile textures for Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush.
Friday, January 16th, 2015